MySQL as a relational database management system

Data in a relational database is stored in an organized format so that information can be retrieved easily. Data will be stored in different tables made up of rows and columns. However, the relationship also can be built between different tables that efficiently store huge data and effectively retrieve the selected data. This provides database operations with tremendous speed and flexibility.

As a relational database, MySQL has capabilities to establish relationships with different tables such as one to many, many to one, and one to one by providing primary keys, foreign keys, and indexes. We can also perform joins between tables to retrieve exact information like inner joins and outer joins.

SQL (Structured Query Language) is used as an interface to interact with the relational data in MySQL. SQL is an ANSI (American National Standard Institute) standard language which we can operate with data like creation, deletion, updating, and retrieval.